"Are skirts a sub thing, or just for women?"

"Both. I mean, I have one but if I was a girl I'd have tons," Jackson says.

"It's interesting how a lot of the things that signal sub are feminine in our world."

"'Interesting'," mutters Daria, "that's one way to put it."

"Well, people used to think girls were all subs," says Jackson. "And boys were all doms. And people pretended to match."

"That seems like a lot of people pretending, it's not like with gay people where it's only a couple percent of the population."

"What people?" says Jackson.

" - gay. Attracted to people of the same gender?"

"...are people usually monosexual where you're from too?"

"Um, If monosexual means 'attracted only to the opposite gender' then yes. It's kind of hard to gather statistic because the issue's been politicized to hell and back but the best guess I've got is definitely in the single digits for gay or bi people. I'm going to assume you usually aren't?"

"Monosexual means attracted to only one gender," says Jackson. "I don't think either kind is more common... it's weird though."

Um. "That doesn't make any sense, you evolved same as we did - er, I assume, please tell me you aren't secretly actually a creationist world or something, I'd have to apologize to so many people - it doesn't make sense that you're not preferentially attracted to the gender you could have children with."

"...it doesn't make sense that there's people who get like suicidal or whatever either," says Jackson, "but that's not everything that's going on?"

"Half the population isn't suicidal, you can call that a glitch or something, I don't know, I'm not a biologist. What percent of people even ends up in relationships that can have kids? I guess you had roles matched to gender for a while, but that couldn't have been everywhere, through all of history..."

"We figure some girl doms hooked up with boy subs and just pretended in public," says Jackson.

"It was everywhere? I mean, I guess you could say, uh, something something taking care of children something something vulnerability, but I could spin that as a dom thing in two seconds, 'lioness' is an archetype."

"I don't know a lot about the rest of the world," says Jackson. "Uh, doms in Asia sometimes have long hair?"

" - that is so not the point."

"What is?"

"It's not aspects of the presentation, it's how if half the population was pretending to be something they aren't, that sounds way too unstable for everyone everywhere to have picked it up independently. - actually, no, if only societies that forced men and women into relationships that could produce children survived that... kind of makes sense? People that're still alive really aren't my area, I should probably not speculate too much."

"There's probably like some tiny tribal society in Africa that expects women to be doms instead but they'd be wrong more of the time," says Jackson. "I guess switches can pretend either way just as well probably? So they'd be wrong about half the time and everybody else could get - seventy percent."

"I guess," grumbles Daria.

"Sixty plus ten or forty plus - yeah, fifty and seventy," mutters Jackson.

"Women are more likely to be subs?" She's suspending judgement on how skeptical she should be of this claim until she talks to her alt, but it's good to know what people think.

"Yeah."